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Winning Poems

If You're a Poet, We Want to Know it! 2020 Volume 8 – Bubbles

Congratulations to our winners!

Child category | Teen category | Adult category | Previous years' ebooks | This year's ebook | Instructions for downloading |

First place – Child category

Lockdown

I see empty streets, people walking and running, long lines at the supermarket

I hear sirens going past, hard rain hitting the window, Jacinda speaking to NZ

I smell baking, sweet feijoas, fresh air I feel Marble's soft fur, rain pouring on me, the wind blowing on my face

I taste banana cake, apple and blackcurrant juice, crunchy apples in my mouth

I miss my friends, I miss going to the pool, I miss the movies, I miss school and I miss being free.

Alina Chaber-Murray

Second place – Child category

BLOWHOLE

He swims smoothly through the silent sea water

Effortlessly, gliding out front

Big, towering over every other

Up for a breath of air

Whoosh! Gurgle! Spurt! Pop!

Bubble, Bubble, Bubble!

Rushing takes over the stillness

Bubbles emerge, taking their place at the surface

Spluttering as if they are alive

Suddenly, still once more

Oscar Wood

Third place – Child category

Lockdown

Lockdown has been fun with my whanau

I was in Auckland for most of lockdown

My Mum’s birthday

Science experiments

Dancing to Tik Tok

Watching movies

Listening to songs like My Dad the Crocodile Hunter and Million Dreams

Playing with my brother

Washed my hands all the time

Kept my bubble small

Hari T

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First place – Teen category

Bubble life

Inside my bubble

I am learning that

I am yearning to get out.

Joe Popham


Second place – Teen category

Piece of bubble gum

A piece of bubble gum has no name or identity

It is part of the pavement now, no plan or purpose

Once a savoir for fresh breath and a distractor from the dull

chewed, popped, spat out forgotten to eternity

The piece of bubble gum is what you step over on your journey home

what you complain about when it ends up on your shoe

A piece of bubble gum will stay until it has slowly faded away.

Olivia Groube


Third place – Teen category

Lockdown!

Beach walks, Sidewalk chalk.

Ongoing fun, Lockdown sun.

Family feuds, Annoying attitudes.

Board game beatings, Competition heating.

Baking galore, Trips to the grocery store.

Time with pets, COVID upsets.

Netflix and Disney Plus, Movie decision fuss.

Facetiming friends, Internet trends.

Weekday school, Weekend’s rule.

Lockdown strife, take me back to normal life!

Ruby Shaw

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First place – Adult category 

Life

Like the mist rolling over the mountain covering, engulfing, gone

Encasing and consuming us weighing, pulling, down

No longer the flight in the wind floating, moving, on

The last day of light will come rushing, taking, gone

The glimmer through the canopies drawing, guiding, in

Teaching those to seek again shelter, skin, within

The risk is none you haven’t known survived, given, dispel

Pursuit is the only place know, risk, go

Determined is the soul of those flow, exist, sew.

Ashleigh Jane Hutton


Second place – Adult category

Still

shards of blackberry litter the rotting deck and our toddler is desperate to eat the bark at the playground and I can't stop making banana bread while my husband tries to work at the dining table with the power tools boxing him in and each day we religiously wait for dr ashley to grace our screens and we wonder what normal was, exactly, quietly praying that the tomorrow who greets us is a bit more still.

Kaitlyn Wislang

Third place – Adult category

This Time

I stand under the black velvet of the night sky.

Stars shine like guides, leading the way to silence and peace.

I breathe deep on the darkness of the Gorge night and feel myself expand.

This time has been; fresh air, the hawk circling in the wide blue, space and more space, the river roaring, a resting into deep still silence and a coming up anew.

The song of the Tui and the pine breeze from the Macrocarpa in the warm sun.

I find myself quieter, stronger, more sure.

I feel at home in a new knowing and the space around me.

This time has given me a blessing, and now,

All is possible.

Bryony Rogers

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ebooks from previous years' competitions 

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ebook from this year's competition

If You're a Poet, We Want to Know it! Volume 8 2020 "Bubbles" https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1037856

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Instructions

Clicking the above links will take you to the Smashwords Library.

If you don’t have an e-reading application installed on your device, follow the instructions below.

It’s easy to read ebooks on your desktop or laptop computer. Simply download an e-reading application as follows:

EPUB

For PCs and Laptops

Download and install the free Adobe Digital Editions from the Adobe website

For Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch/Mac

Download the free Apple iBooks app from the App Store

For Android devices

Download Aldiko from the Google Play Store (a free e-reading app)

After you install one of the above apps, simply return to your Smashwords Library; click to the book you want to download, then click to download the EPUB file format. Your web browser should ask you if you want to use the app to read immediately, or if you want to download the book to your computer (if you download to your computer, the Desktop is a good location to drop the file so you can find it).

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